A Dazzling Reformation

Chapter Two

By Miffles

"This is our chance!" Adagio said, as if it were obvious. "We solve the mystery, we are proved! That's what Sunset did,"

"Just because Sunset did it means that it will work for us?" Aria scoffed.

"That's not what I mean. I mean if we prove ourselves by doing something good, they won't hate us."

"Who says they hate us now?" The two girls broke out into a fight.

"Stop!" Sonata yelled, then immediately she was shushed by her fellow Dazzlings. "Fine. So maybe Sunset did that too, and it worked. Sunset is different from us, but the girls might have the same reaction--they'd forgive her. And they'd forgive us."

"But they already said--" piped in Adagio.

"--that they forgive us, but come on, we all know that isn't a hundred and one percent true." Sonata finished, placing a hand on her hip. "How couldn't they forgive us if we practically save the world? Or, Canterlot at least." Aria and Adagio stood with their mouths agape. Sonata was being smart for once.

"So how do you all of a sudden know them so well?" Aria said, smirking.

Gosh, does that taco-hater always have to be so negative? "I don't have to. They're pretty easy people to read, if you ask me."

"We didn't ask you."

"Yeah? Well, you're just--"

"Idiot! How could you even figure that--?"

"Easy for you to say! You're really--!"

"Says the--"

"Stop!" Adagio practically screamed, immediately being shushed, just as Sonata had been. A scowl snaked it's way onto her expression as she folded her arms. "Look, I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but Sonata's right." Sonata squealed. "And even if they don't forgive us, we've been doing...moderately...well on this whole friendship thing. We'll just make friends elsewhere."

Aria scoffed, "As if it's that easy."

"Are you completely missing the point of what it means to be nice? I know you're automatically snarky with everybody, but just because you haven't had the best life doesn't mean you need to make everyone else unhappy with you," the girl said. The other two were shocked. "At least me and Adagio are trying! You haven't changed much at all. You can only take the negative spin on anything and everything, and maybe if you didn't, we wouldn't have it so bad! We might not be sitting here trying to figure out how to save the stupid world and all of it's delicious tacos!"

"You're blaming this all on me? Maybe if you weren't so stupid and ditzy, you wouldn't be scolded all the time. I'm not the only one at fault here!" Aria spat back. Sonata's eyes welled up with tears as she ran up the stairs, presumably to the bathroom. Aria looked at Adagio, the guilty feeling written all over her face. "What did I just do?"

"You both just messed up, it's up to you to fix it."

The next morning, Rarity, Adagio and Maud were the only three up. Of course, it was 6am, but they were early birds. Maud had begun the coffee, presumably up hours before the other two. Adagio had grabbed a plain purple mug, whilst Rarity grabbed one engraved with her cutie mark. Maud had a grey one, and they all took turns pouring coffee, creamer and/or sugar into their mugs.

Rarity sat at the table, across from where Adagio had placed herself. Maud had stuck around, surprisingly. Usually she would run off to her room after getting her coffee, but after a talk with Pinkie, she'd been convinced to socialize a bit.

"As you both most likely know, already, I'm Maud, Pinkie Pie's sister." Maud finally spoke, her monotone voice never failing. Adagio and Rarity nodded in reply, Rarity's hands resting on her lap while Adagio was holding her mug tight, as if she were afraid it'd run away. She was tense, but had done well at perfecting hiding her emotions. She didn't need constant snarky remarks from Aria about her current emotional state, or never-ending questions from Sonata like "Why are you so sad looking, 'Dagi?"

"Pinkie told me to socialize more. As far as she's told me, you're Adagio," Maud pointed to the orange-haired girl, who responded with a nod, "And you're Rarity. Of course, I knew that already." And Rarity looked flattered for a split-second, before Maud interrupted with, "Considering she's constantly babbling about you." Rarity had expected as much.

"Well," Adagio started, "I suppose I don't have an outstanding reputation, do I?"

"Not really, no," Maud replied. "But I don't hold grudges."

Adagio was slightly surprised to hear that, but kept her emotional mask on. "Do I have to do something crazy to prove myself to you anyway?"

"I've seen the way you act with them. It's enough for me."

Adagio still couldn't have been more stunned, but kept her cool. "That's good." Maud nodded in reply, probably not bothering any more with Adagio.

"Since you already know of me, I do not need an introduction, correct?" Rarity butted in, making sure she was right.

"Well, we haven't officially met yet, so fire away." Maud gave a slight nod, sipping from her mug. Rarity gave her introduction, and Maud listened, although she didn't seem interested. Or uninterested. Adagio figured only Pinkie would be able to read her sister.

Adagio's mind hadn't been paying attention to Rarity's actual introduction (even though it should have been), instead focused intently on Aria and Sonata's fight last night. It'd been not her problem, but she still wanted to fix it. And then she knew something was wrong with her, because she wanted to fix it.

That stupid rainbow. Adagio cursed it mentally, before reminding herself to hide her emotions. Because she knew her face had been doing the thing.

"Something wrong?" Rarity piped up, and then the former siren realized both Rarity and Maud were staring at her.

"Yeah, I'm fine." She didn't even bother with an excuse, because she'd learned long ago that it would get her nowhere. She'd only stumble over her words and come up with a completely unbelievable excuse. So she just forgot about it.

And Rarity babbled on while Adagio and Maud absently sipped their coffee. The alabaster-skinned girl continued on long after the coffee was gone from all three mugs, her lips moving impossibly fast. And Adagio figured this was how she usually was when she talked about herself because there was just so much to talk about. Too much, Adagio felt.

And the trio sat there for an hour just sharing their own stories.

It was refreshing, and Adagio felt she'd made new friends. Real ones.

And while Maud may not admit it, both she and Rarity felt the same way.

And Adagio smiled.